Blog Post 1.5 - "What Happened (With the Voters)?"

1. Neither candidate was very popular compared to past candidates. They were by far the number one and number two most disliked candidates. 
2. Jill Stein with the Green Party and Gary Johnson with the Libertarian Party both tripled their votes from 2012. This resulted in both Trump and Clinton falling short of fifty percent in more than a few states. 
3. Clinton did convince many people that Trump was unfit for the Presidency, but that did not result in more votes for her. It meant that Trump got fewer votes, but these people instead voted for third-party candidates rather than Clinton, ultimately hurting her. 
4. Romney received 59% of the white vote in 2012, whereas Trump won 58%.
5. Clinton did much worse than Obama in every nonwhite group, although she still won all of them. She dropped 5% among black men, 2% among black women, 2% among Latino men, 7% among Latino women, and 5% among all others. 
6. College graduates typically voted for Clinton at 52% versus Trump at 42%. 
7. Both parties nominated someone who was well-known but incredibly unpopular and disliked. 
8. Trump did slightly worse with white voters than Romney, and performed just as well with Latino and black voters.
9. Clinton did not broadly appeal to women voters, and she in fact did worse among noncollege white women than Obama.